Tips On How To Eliminate Bed Bugs In Your Home
However the eliminating them is not going to be an easy task as it needs lots of patience and hard work to kill them completely.
However in cases if there is a suspect of infestation there is no need to go for comprehensive treatment whereas there are several steps that can be applied by the house owner to kill them completely.
If the impact of the infestation is higher then it is better to consult a pest control expert regarding the impact and hand over the service to them in order to get effective result.
These bugs mostly come out during the late night time and feed on the blood.
So the first step that can be applied to get rid of the bed bugs is to stop the physical possibility of them reaching your bed wherever they are hiding to the host at night.
This can be applied by removing the furniture and bed frames touching to the wall.
The legs of the bed frames can be coated with Vaseline or other mineral oils which will stop the bugs from entering the bed.
Some other effective methods that can be implemented is by dropping sticky tapes on the bed post which will capture the bugs that enters the bed frames and this is one of the best methods to find out whether there is any suspect of infestation in your home and can act accordingly.
Double sided carpet tape can also be used to trap bugs.
It is also quite achievable to get rid of some of the bedbugs and their eggs.
Many have a thought that bed bugs are invisible and they are not able to see through human eyes.
But the thing is that they are much mall less than a inch size, they are not much seen outside as they hide themselves in wall cracks, crevices, bed frames etc.
So after making comprehensive investigation over your sleeping area they should be removed by brushing and scrape their hidden places and vacuuming the hidden places completely without making way to move to another place.
If you come to witness any the cracks in the wall they should be immediately filled.
There are several pest control sprays that can be applied to get rid of bed bugs completely and gives effective result.
Other effective method is cleaning the mats, cloths and garments in washing them in warm water an exposing them to sunlight for couple of hours which would surely kill the bed bugs sticking to it.
Bed bugs cannot stand cold temperature or heat for long.
This method also destroys bed bug eggs.
Practice the above said steps regularly to get out from the problems of bed bugs.